The Covid inquiry has published the third of its ten (ten!) modules today, this time focused on how the healthcare systems of the UK coped with the pandemic. Its key finding is that they only just managed to do so, and ‘on a number of occasions, they teetered on the brink of collapse’. That they did survive was ‘thanks to the almost superhuman efforts of healthcare workers and all the staff who support them’. 

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The inquiry chair, Heather Hallett, also takes issue with ‘politicians, including the secretary of state for health and social care, Matt Hancock’, who were........

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